Little Swinburne Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. Tower house.

Little Swinburne Tower

WRENN ID
veiled-string-finch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Tower house
Address
Little Swinburne Tower, Chollerton
OS grid reference
NY 949 778
Coordinates
55.09492, -2.08035
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Little Swinburne Tower is a ruined tower house dating from the 15th century. It is constructed of random rubble, with significant portions of the south and west walls still standing to about 30 feet. The east and north walls are more fragmented and have mostly lost their facing stone. The south and west walls feature a chamfered offset at the first floor level. On the west side, there are remnants indicating the roof of a building that has since been demolished. Inside, there are remains of a basement vault and traces of a fireplace from the first floor.

Local climate

Little Swinburne Tower receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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